Dan Kotliar

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馃攳algorithms & culture | AI ethics | surveillance | data infrastructures, & more.

馃帗Assistant Prof. U of Haifa Sociology.
Previously: Stanford U, Hebrew U.

馃摉 Researchhttps://www.researchgate.net/profile/Dan-Kotliar
馃惁 Birdsitehttps://twitter.com/DanKotliar
馃搨 Fields#Sociology #STS #CulturalSociolgy #QualitativeMethods #InternetResearch
Dan KotliarMar 24, 2023

馃巿I'm happy to share my new #OA article w/ Rafi Grosglik on the curious ties between AI, microbiome science, and startup culture.馃巿

The article deals with how microbiome science offers a new, post-individualistic view of humans; and how AI affords this new view but also leads back to good-old individuation - to humans who can only access their non-human sub-parts by following opaque algorithmic recommendations in an app.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1357034X231151855?fbclid=IwAR2NEMFC2RP-CixOv6dzDTIxq3N_h_lnjNZaSue1-9zEphMV1YGw-L_I2ZI

Show threadDan KotliarFeb 13, 2023
I urge my colleagues in Israel and abroad to support our struggle at this historical juncture, and to join our protest against the looming anti-democratic regime change in Israel.
Show threadDan KotliarFeb 13, 2023
The planned subordination of Israel's judiciary system to partisan political considerations will have disastrous effects on human rights and freedom of speech in Israel, and particularly on minority rights, Palestinian lives, the Israeli LGBTQ community, refugees, non-Jewish residents and citizens of Israel, leftwing and civil rights activists, and women.
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Dan KotliarFeb 13, 2023

Like many of my colleagues in Israel, I am on strike today to protest the erosion of Israel's already fragile democracy by its 37th government.

Israel is facing a crisis of historic proportions, which is liable to bring what remains of Israeli democracy to an end. >>

Dan KotliarJan 18, 2023
There's ALWAYS a (traumatized) human in the loop. Always.
https://time.com/6247678/openai-chatgpt-kenya-workers/
Exclusive: OpenAI Used Kenyan Workers on Less Than $2 Per Hour to Make ChatGPT Less Toxic

OpenAI used outsourced workers in Kenya earning less than $2 per hour to scrub toxicity from ChatGPT. Here's what to know.

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Show threadDan KotliarJan 9, 2023
#aiethics #ai #algorithms #ethics #datascience #moralregimes
Show threadDan KotliarJan 9, 2023
Many thanks to the kind and wise anonymous reviewers and to NM&S for another truly enjoyable intellectual ride. 馃檹
Show threadDan KotliarJan 9, 2023
Here鈥檚 a little video we made for #AoIR2021 that summarizes our key findings. >>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJYlMqS2atE
CONTEXTUALIZING AI ETHICS IN TIME AND SPACE - AoIR2021

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Show threadDan KotliarJan 9, 2023
Following Boltanski鈥檚 pragmatic social analysis, we explore how Israeli data scientists see and justify the ethics of their algorithms, and offer professional and cultural explanations for the lack of organized, accepted algorithmic ethics. >>
Dan KotliarJan 9, 2023

馃巿I鈥檓 happy to share my new #OpenAccess article in NM&S with Shira Rivnai & Netta Avnoon!馃巿

In it, we offer a socio-professional approach to the study of algorithmic ethics. >>
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14614448221145728